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Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, sophia's moussaka. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Sophia's Moussaka is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Sophia's Moussaka is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

Greek eggplant casserole with a delicious meat sauce and béchamel topping. Sophia's Moussaka Moussaka is an expensive and cumbersome dish to make. So, it takes time and patience. Moussaka is an expensive and cumbersome dish to make.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have sophia's moussaka using 23 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Sophia's Moussaka:

1. Make ready For frying
2. Prepare For frying
3. Take 2 kg potatoes
4. Get 4 eggplants
5. Prepare 4 large zucchinis
6. Take For the filling
7. Get For the filling
8. Make ready 1 cup olive oil
9. Get 1.5 kg mixed mince (beef and pork)
10. Make ready 1 large dry onion
11. Prepare parsley and dill
12. Prepare 500 g tomato sauce
13. Make ready 1 stock cube
14. Get salt and pepper
15. Prepare 1/2 kg feta cheese
16. Make ready For the béchamel
17. Get For the béchamel
18. Prepare 200 g margarine
19. Prepare 1 cup vegetable oil
20. Prepare 6 tbsp flour
21. Take 1.5 l milk
22. Get salt - pepper
23. Get 150 g Gouda cheese

Moussaka is one of those dishes that intimidates most as it is so time-consuming. It's the preparation that challenges us, but I have tried may different approaches to recommend only one way of preparing the eggplant, potatoes, and pumpkin so they are tasty and healthily prepared. We used to shallow fry the eggplant. Add the basil just before layering your moussaka.

Steps to make Sophia's Moussaka:

1. Peel and cut the potatoes and eggplants into round shapes. Cut the zucchini first into two halves and then in slices.
2. Fry everything in the evening and leave them overnight in a strainer so that the oil drains.The following day, sauté the onion in the olive oil, then add the mince, after that, the sauce, parsley, dill, the stock cube, salt and pepper. Let it boil for 15 minutes.
3. To make the béchamel, put the margarine and the vegetable oil in a pot to brown, add the flour and whisk. About a minute later, add the milk, salt and pepper.
4. Take a 30x40 baking tray and start the layers, beginning with the potatoes.
5. Arrange the potatoes next to one another and if you have more, use them to fill in the empty spaces.
6. Then, layer the zucchinis and on top of them, the mince, sprinkling 250 g feta cheese on top.
7. Cover the mince and the feta cheese with a layer of eggplants then another layer of mince and the rest 250 g of the feta cheese.
8. Slowly pour the  béchamel over the top and sprinkle with the 150 g of Gouda.
9. Bake in a convection oven at 150°C, for 1 hour.

We used to shallow fry the eggplant. Add the basil just before layering your moussaka. Make the béchamel sauce by heating the oil, adding the flour, and stirring till well mixed. Add the milk, and whisk well until thickened. Add the grated cheese, and season with salt, pepper and nutmeg.

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